¹⁷ At the end of seventy years, the Lord will visit Tyre, and she will return to her trade and will prostitute herself with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.^(A)

¹² Tarshish did business with you out of the abundance of your great wealth; silver, iron, tin, and lead they exchanged for your wares.^{(F) 13} Javan, Tubal, and Meshech traded with you; they exchanged human beings and vessels of bronze for your merchandise.^{(G) 14} Beth-togarmah exchanged for your wares horses, war horses, and mules.^{(H) 15} The Rhodians^[e] traded with you; many coastlands were your own special markets; they brought you in payment ivory tusks and ebony.^{(I) 16} Edom^[f] did business with you because of your abundant goods; they exchanged for your wares turquoise, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and rubies.^{(J) 17} Judah and the land of Israel traded with you; they exchanged for your merchandise wheat from Minnith, millet,^[g] honey, oil, and balm.^{(K) 18} Damascus traded with you for your abundant goods—because of your great wealth of every kind—wine of Helbon and wool of Zahar.^{(L) 19} Vedan and Javan from Uzal^[h] entered into trade for your wares; wrought iron, cassia, and sweet cane were bartered for your merchandise. ²⁰ Dedan traded with you in saddlecloths for riding. ²¹ Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were your favored dealers in lambs, rams, and goats; in these they did business with you.^{(M) 22} The merchants of Sheba and Raamah traded with you; they exchanged for your wares the best of all kinds of spices and all precious stones and gold.^{(N) 23} Haran, Canneh, Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad traded with you.^{(O) 24} These traded with you in choice garments, in clothes of blue and embroidered work, and in carpets of colored material, bound with cords and made secure; in these they traded with you.^{[i] 25} The ships of Tarshish traveled for you in your trade.

⁹ And the kings of the earth, who engaged in sexual immorality^[a] and lived in luxury with her, will weep and wail over her when they see the smoke of her burning;^{(A) 10} they will stand far off, in fear of her torment, and say,

¹¹ And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn for her, since no one buys their cargo any more, ¹² cargo of gold, silver, jewels and pearls, fine linen, purple, silk and scarlet, all kinds of scented wood, all articles of ivory, all articles of costly wood, bronze, iron, and marble,^{(C) 13} cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, frankincense, wine, olive oil, choice flour and wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, slaves—and human lives.^[b](D)

The Great Whore and the Beast

17 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great whore^[a] who is seated on many waters,^{(A) 2} with whom the kings of the earth have engaged in sexual immorality^[b] and with the wine of whose prostitution the inhabitants of the earth have become drunk.”^{(B) 3} So he carried me away in the spirit^[c] into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns.^{(C) 4} The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her prostitution,^{(D) 5} and on her forehead was written a name, a mystery: “Babylon the great, mother^[d] of whores^[e] and of earth’s abominations.”^(E)

² to tend the flock of God that is in your charge, exercising the oversight,^[a] not under compulsion but willingly, as God would have you do it,^[b] not for sordid gain but eagerly.^(A)

Qualifications of Deacons

⁸ Deacons likewise must be serious, not double-tongued, not indulging in much wine, not greedy for money;^(A)

³ not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, and not a lover of money.^(A)